New Delhi, April 9 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday instructed the Copyright Office to decide within eight weeks on an application seeking copyright protection for an artwork generated using artificial intelligence in the case of Stephen Thaler v. Union of India, BarandBench reported.

The direction was issued in a petition filed by American AI researcher Stephen Thaler, who is seeking copyright recognition for an artwork titled "A Recent Entrance to Paradise", which he claims was created independently by his AI system DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience).

Justice Tushar Rao Gedela disposed of the petition after observing that the Copyright Office has fixed a hearing in the case for April 27, and instru...